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Born: 20-Oct-1891
Birthplace: Manchester, England
Father: John Joseph Chadwick (laundry manager)
Mother: Anne Mary Knowles
Wife: Aileen Stewart-Brown (m. 11-Aug-1925, two daughters)
Daughter: Joanna Stewart Chadwick Batterham (b. 1-Feb-1927 twin)
Daughter: Judith Chadwick (b. 1-Feb-1927 twin)
Died: 24-Jul-1974
Location of death: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Executive summary: Discovered the neutron
Biography
Upon his release at the end of the war in 1918, Chadwick once again
joined Rutherford, and confirmed that the charge of the nucleus was
the same as the atomic number. In 1921, he was awarded a research
fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, and in the following year,
became Rutherford's assistant at the Cavendish Laboratory. While he
was the day-to-day operational manager of the laboratory, he still
found time to conduct research, the direction of which was generally
suggested by Rutherford. Chadwick and Charles D. Ellis, who had
been a fellow prisoner with Chadwick during the war and later
pursued his studies at Trinity College and under Rutherford,
investigated the transmutation of elements under bombardment by
alpha particles (helium nuclei). A research group in Vienna had
reported results that were at odds with those achieved at the
Cavendish, the later of which were ably defended by further
experimentation by Chadwick and his colleagues.
The Neutron
Legacy